Majority of Irish beaches dirty as vapes become the new scourge

Volunteers remove rubbish from White Bay beach in East Cork. Picture: Cathal Noonan

A majority of Ireland’s beaches are dirty, with disposable vapes “rapidly emerging” as a common form of litter on coastlines, a new survey has found.

The annual survey of coasts and inland waterways by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) found that while there was a 50% rise in clean sites surveyed compared to last year, Ireland's coastal areas are still more littered than its towns.